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Hebah M. Ismail ’06 had planned to work with Law School clinical instructor Ahmad Amara in Israel for eight days for a research project on Bedouin land rights, but Ismail was detained in Tel Aviv’s airport for two days and then deported. Now Amara is considering suing for compensation, he said...
Amara, who was not able to complete his research due to Ismail’s absence, said that he hopes to work with the Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic to help ensure that Law School students will not have trouble entering foreign countries in the future...
Tyler R. Giannini, the clinical director of the Law School’s Human Rights Program, wrote in an e-mailed statement that the clinic is “considering the most appropriate response in light of the circumstances and the best interests of Hebah [Ismail] and our future students...
Following unprecedented levels of abuse of state media by the ruling party candidate, the election commissioner demanded that all media follow ethical guidelines. Upon the state’s failure to enforce law, on Jan. 16, the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka ordered the media to follow the guidelines of the election commissioner. This order fell on deaf ears. Violence escalated, and by Jan. 26, four people had died...
Tymoshenko, meanwhile, has built her campaign around promises of a sharp crackdown on embezzling bureaucrats and the oligarchs who have used their political influence to circumvent the law and take control of much of the economy. She blames Yushchenko's "weakness" for the rampant lawlessness. "He didn't stand the test of power," she told TIME in an interview in December. Tymoshenko says she will display no such timidity. At a campaign stop in southern Ukraine in January, she told supporters, "Sometimes I'm envious of China, where they have just what's needed for punishing corruption - they...